Nelson's Linkblog 2013-03

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Clement Street Bar & Grill

History of a fine drinking establishment

2013-03-31 clement • food • history • restaurants • sanfrancisco

New release of a useful tool

2013-03-31 browser • http • screenshot • webkit

Bottom-up game design

On how to not make a good game

2013-03-30 complexity • games • simulation • via:amitp

SpamHaus IP hijacked

Seriously ugly move in a stupid Internet war

2013-03-30 badtech • cyberbunker • security • spamhaus

Facebook red icon stats

Interesting, simple data about people supporting marriage equality

2013-03-30 civilrights • facebook • gay • protest • social • stats

Mac Chrome apps

Turn a URL into a Mac app that runs in chrome

2013-03-29 chrome • fluidapp • google • macos

Wise thoughts on flexible management skills

2013-03-29 advice • management • tech

Google Data Liberation Front

Group of Google engineers documenting ways to move your data in and out of Google

2013-03-28 consumer • freedom • google

Let's say FeedBurner shuts down...

Preparing for a possible Googlepocalypse

2013-03-27 blogs • feedburner • google

Override MacOS versions of Unix tools that are poorly built, like less

2013-03-26 brew • homebrew • macos • unix

Minimal Javascript library builder

2013-03-26 code • javascript • optimization

Google Readers' influence

Nice details on the value of Google Reader traffic to publishers

2013-03-25 google • reader • socialmedia

Pakistan drone strikes

Powerfully stark visualization

2013-03-25 drone • military • pakistan • visualization

OGR wrapper for Python geo software

2013-03-24 code • gdal • geo • gis • ogr • python

Amazing photo by a friend

2013-03-23 amitp • birds • eagles • photos

Automatically generated content

2013-03-23 ads • buzzfeed • funny • via:metafilter

Gustave Whitehead: first in flight?

Janes is now backing someone other than the Wrights as first to fly an airplane

2013-03-22 aviation • flying • wright

Use Python on line input like awk

2013-03-22 awk • python • shell • unix • via:onethingwell

Beshine: world's biggest boobs

Website of a freakishly modified woman

2013-03-22 beshine • bme • boobs • porn

Twitter Kremlinology

No idea how much of this is accurate, but it sure is detailed

2013-03-21 companies • engineering • twitter

Internet Census 2012

Researcher builds botnet to analyze the internet

2013-03-21 badtech • botnet • ethics • internet • security

SFPD surveillance

Cops requiring bars to record everything

2013-03-21 police • privacy • sanfrancisco • sfpd

Arc/Info E00 Format

Documentation of a proprietary ESRI format

2013-03-20 arcinfo • data • e00 • esri • geo • gis

new-less JavaScript

How to support multiple kinds of object instantiation

2013-03-20 code • javascript • programming

New Tomato variant that maintains simplicity

2013-03-20 asus • firmware • router • tomato

Notes on making MySQL a real database and not just a data-corrupting toy

2013-03-20 coding • data • errors • mysql

Evangel Cathedral

Crazy Flash-heavy church website

2013-03-20 church • flash • religion • via:kra

Chris Hadfield FAQ

Questions for the popular Canadian astronaut. "Can you cry in space?"

2013-03-20 astronaut • canada • nasa • socialmedia • space

Execute shell commands in a simple way from the Python interpreter

2013-03-20 batshitinsane • programming • python • shell • unix

Internal newsletter for NSA; lots redacted, but still interesting

2013-03-20 crypto • government • nsa • security • via:hackernews

2013-03-19 cats • davidbowie

IAmA: Phil Fish

Reddit interview of the guy who made amazing indie game Fez

2013-03-19 fez • games • interview

1959 gay TV play

2013-03-19 bbc • drama • gay • tv

lz4 compression

Very fast, pretty good compression

2013-03-18 algorithm • code • compression • gzip

Building ViziCities

Amazing story of how a group built WebGL maps of London

2013-03-17 geo • london • maps • webgl

Google Graveyard

Funny interactive for various dead Google projects

2013-03-16 google • products • reader

Easing functions

Nice list of various transition functions and how to use them

2013-03-16 animation • javascript • tweening • visualization

1992's best multiplayer game still lives!

2013-03-15 games • multiplayer • netrek • online

Mapnik + vector tiles

Migurski does some amazing mapping work

2013-03-15 mapnik • maps • openstreetmap • osm

Scott Oelkers bio

The president of Dominos Japan, in the crazy Hatsune Miku ad

2013-03-15 ads • dominos

Domino's / Hatsune Miku

I no longer know what's real

2013-03-14 ads • anime • dominos • hatsunemiku • pizza • via:metafilter

Galileo's accuracy

Comparison of 1610 astronomy sketches to where Jupiter's moons really were

2013-03-14 astronomy • galileo • jupiter • via:kottke

Google Reader stats

Numbers on the product Google is about to shut down

2013-03-14 data • google • reader • via:metafilter

Brian Shih on Google Reader

some insider analysis

2013-03-14 google • reader

On building Google Reader

Blog posts from one of the Google Reader authors

2013-03-14 cw • google • reader

Google Reader being killed

Such a shame, it's a product I rely on

2013-03-13 google • reader • rss

Chinese cyberwarrior blog

Personal comments from one of China's military hackers

2013-03-13 china • cyberwar • military • us

US cyberattack teams

Military discloses we are building offensive capability

2013-03-13 china • cyberwar • military • us

Weibo censorship

Dan Wallach and crew at Rice measure how fast stuff gets deleted from Weibo

2013-03-13 censorship • china • civilrights • twitter • weibo

GitHub for maps?

2013-03-11 geo • git • github • maps • via:sha

Advice for transcoding video files for the Roku/Plex. "Apple TV 2" preset is pretty close.

2013-03-10 handbrake • plex • roku • transcode • video

WebGL maps with OSM

Experiments in rendering, looking impressive

2013-03-10 maps • osm • webgl

Raspberry Pi webcam server

Simple way to set up a USB webcam with Linux

2013-03-10 motion • pi • raspberrypi • webcam

Roguelike Primer

Nice list of options in a game genre

2013-03-10 games • nethack • roguelike • rpg • via:metafilter

Harvard's 1920 gay purge

The craziness of an earlier era

2013-03-10 1920s • civilrights • gay • harvard

Hamakua Macadamia Nuts

Remarkably good nuts from Hawaii

2013-03-09 food • hawaii • macadamias • macnuts • nuts

"EA, you are worse than Herpes"

What does an NFL punter think of SimCity?

2013-03-08 drm • ea • games • simcity

EA suspends SimCity marketing

Their game launch has turned into an enormous fiasco, all self-inflicted

2013-03-08 drm • ea • electronicarts • games • simcity

If Tetris were a modern online F2P game

2013-03-08 ea • funny • games • satire • simcity • tetris

1997 article proposing using Javascript in browsers to do scavenged CPU computing

2013-03-08 cpu • javascript • patents • priorart

Military use of IRC

Quick summary of a surprising adoption of communications tech

2013-03-07 c2 • irc • military • via:nat

experiment doing tiles for GPS tracks

2013-03-06 gps • maps

3d modeling with a textual programming approach, not graphical

2013-03-06 3d • cad • openscad • programming

D3 select tutorIal

simple, constructive approach

2013-03-05 d3 • d3js • javascript

How to bullshit a TED talk

funny because its often true

2013-03-05 futurism • speaking • ted

Google keyword loss

side effect of switching to SSL is sites no longer know what search keywords led to the site

2013-03-04 google • search • seo

Geologic map of Hawai‘I

beautiful USGS volcano map; love the colors

2013-03-03 hawaii • maps • usgs • volcano

Asteroid discoveries

visualization + narration

2013-03-01 astronomy • space • via:metafilter